Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was twelve when his father was imprisoned for debt and he was sent to paste labels in a boot-blacking factory, an episode he kept secret all his life, except from his wife and his friend Forster. A shorthand writer and then parliamentary reporter, he found fame at twenty-four and published his novels in instalments. He gave exhausting public readings and died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of fifty-eight.

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• NovelOliver TwistCharles Dickens · 1838LiteraturePublic domain